The year is 1940 and war is blossoming across the globe

The Battle of Britain enters its last phase, and it remains to be seen if the Germans will be able to master the proud British into submission. Large air fleets fight for supremacy in the English skies, and the civilians pay the price with the British cities in flames.

The Japanese forces have launched a surprise attack on Vladivostok, the main Soviet city and fortress in the Far East. The Pacific Fleet was sunk by Japanese planes and the rest of the border defenses are being systematically destroyed by the Imperial Navy battleships. In the Mongolian steppes, General Zhukov’s offensive has taken a life of its own and is now 125km deep into Manchuria. The two military juggernauts fight each other with several hundred thousand men on each side. A true battle of titans in the nowhere that is the far eastern territories of Siberia and Manchuria.

With their new alliances, Germany and the USSR are starting to plan their next moves, and a conference is organized between the two powers to decide how and where to go next. The obvious targets are the Middle East, Turkey and North Africa.

Japan and the United Kingdom are moving ever closer to an alliance, following a bold proposition by the Japanese government. A complete reversal of situation is at hand in the Pacific theater of war. Born out of necessity, the two countries are fast becoming friends.

All the while, the United States of America stays frozen in their isolationist policy. Their president Franklin D. Roosevelt plots and scheme to change the nation’s course toward intervention and war. But nothing is yet decided, as elections are at hand in Washington D.C.Larges campaigns are about to be fought, battles lost and won.

The Second World War is at hand, and the entire globe will be set afire.